鎌

See also: 鐮 and 镰

鎌 U+938C, 鎌 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-938C ← 鎋 [U+938B] CJK Unified Ideographs 鎍 → [U+938D]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

鎌 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+10, 18 strokes, cangjie input 金廿難金 (CTXC), four-corner 8813₇, composition ⿰釒兼)

Related characters

• 鐮 (Orthodox traditional form for the meaning "sickle")
• 镰 (Simplified form of 鐮 in mainland China)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1316, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40693
• Dae Jaweon: page 1816, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4244, character 9
• Unihan data for U+938C

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 鎌
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (兼) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
譧	*r'eːms
賺	*r'eːms
尲	*kreːm
鹻	*kreːmʔ
歉	*kʰreːms, *kʰreːmʔ, *kʰeːmʔ, *kʰeːms
槏	*kʰreːmʔ
鰜	*ɡreːm, *keːm
稴	*ɡreːm, *ɡ·reːm, *ɡ·reːmʔ, *ɡ·reːms, *ɡeːm
豏	*ɡreːmʔ, *ɡreːms
甉	*ɡreːmʔ, *ɡraːm
廉	*ɡ·rem
鎌	*ɡ·rem
鬑	*ɡ·rem, *ɡ·reːm
鐮	*ɡ·rem
簾	*ɡ·rem
薕	*ɡ·rem, *ɡ·reːm
蠊	*ɡ·rem
嬚	*ɡ·remʔ
溓	*ɡ·remʔ, *ɡ·reːm, *ɡ·reːmʔ
嵰	*kʰremʔ
隒	*ŋɡremʔ
熑	*ɡ·reːm
濂	*ɡ·reːm
燫	*ɡ·reːm
兼	*keːm, *keːms
縑	*keːm
鶼	*keːm
蒹	*keːm
搛	*keːm
謙	*kʰeːm
膁	*kʰeːmʔ
嗛	*kʰeːmʔ
慊	*kʰeːmʔ, *kʰeːb
傔	*kʰeːms
馦	*qʰeːm
嫌	*ɡeːm
鼸	*ɡeːmʔ
尷	*kreːm

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡ·rem) : semantic 金 (“gold; metal”) + phonetic 兼 (OC *keːm, *keːms)

Etymology 1

trad.		鎌
simp.		镰*
nonstandard simp.		𰾮
alternative forms		䥥／镰

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “same as etymology 2? from 磏?”)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lián (lian²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lim⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lián
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lián
    • Wade–Giles: lien²
    • Yale: lyán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lian
    • Palladius: лянь (ljanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li̯ɛn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: lim⁴
    • Yale: lìhm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lim⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: lim⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /liːm²¹/

Definitions

鎌

1. ^† arrowhead with square corners

   Synonyms: 棱 (léng), 箭鏃／箭镞

   See also: 磏

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 鎌 – see 鐮 (“sickle”). (This character is a variant form of 鐮).

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A04352-001#26
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B05411
• “鎌”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[2], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Shinjitai	鎌
Kyūjitai	鎌󠄁 鎌+󠄁? (Adobe-Japan1)
	鎌󠄃 鎌+󠄃? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

鎌

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: れん (ren)
• Kan-on: れん (ren)
• Kun: かま (kama, 鎌, Jōyō)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
鎌
かま Grade: S
kun’yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 鎌 – see the following entry.

【かま】 [noun] a sickle [noun] a sickle-shaped weapon, such as a polearm with a sickle-shaped blade, or a 鎖鎌 (kusarigama) [noun] short for 火打鎌 (hiuchigama): a striker for lighting fires (from the way that pieces of a broken kama blade were used for this purpose) [noun] (slang) a perverse or bent tendency or way of thinking (from the way a kama blade bends) [noun] (slang) a person with a perverse or bent tendency or way of thinking [noun] a category of 家紋 (kamon, “family crest”) featuring a sickle [noun] (woodworking) short for 鎌継ぎ (kamatsugi): a hammer-headed tenon (from the way the sickle blade sticks out perpendicular to the handle, similar to the sides of the hammer head on this kind of tenon) [noun] (slang) excessive talkativeness (probably by sound association with the word 喧しい (yakamashii, “noisy”)) [noun] (slang) an excessively talkative person [noun] (slang) a penis (probably from the way that a sickle blade sticks out perpendicular to the handle) [noun] area of a fish around the gills

(This term, 鎌, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Etymology

From a corrupted or unorthodox reading.

Historical readings
Recorded as Middle Korean 겸 (kyem)訓 (Yale: kyem) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527. Recorded as Middle Korean 겸 (kyem)訓 (Yale: kyem) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

The original reading is 렴 (ryeom) based on Middle Chinese 鎌 (MC ljem).

Historical readings
Recorded as Middle Korean 렴 (lyem)訓 (Yale: lyem) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [kjʌ̹m]
• Phonetic hangul: [겸]

Hanja

Wikisource

鎌 (eumhun 낫 겸 (nat gyeom))

1. Hanja form^? of 겸 (“sickle”).

References

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [3]

Vietnamese

Han character

鎌: Hán Việt readings: liêm (力(lực)鹽(diêm)切(thiết))
鎌: Nôm readings: gươm, liềm

1. Nôm form of liềm (“sickle”).
2. Nôm form of gươm (“sword”).